07-03-2020, 04:26 PM
(07-03-2020, 02:11 PM)ozzyten10 Wrote: The crowd were fantastic last night. I also think the players clearly cared and were as frustrated as the fans - lolley for example was almost embarrassed to be clapped as he was subbed. 2 games in 4 days due to sky schedules didn’t help either.
Millwall were very good too. Perfect away performance and one straight out of what we have been doing all year. The most frustrating thing is that gestede and smith have done this to us before - the whole fan base knew it but management and squad seemed to be oblivious to the diagonal long ball tactic and the pressing of our right hand side to nullify our own threat and create a weakness from one of our strengths.
It’s also obvious that the team haven’t been on the training ground enough this week - circumstance with injury and schedule. We do now have an 8 day prep time which I have full confidence in Sabri using well on the training ground. I also liked his backing of carvalho last night - saying he will play next match and recognising his technical ability. Good man management - I just hope he repays it in the coming weeks.
What I didn’t like was the poor subs. The game was gone from 60 minute (you could argue from half time). He should have bought grabban off and possibly Watson too. Instead grabban was toiling away and even dropping into midfield. He is obviously nursing injury and fitness - I thought that was stupidity.
Let’s hope da Costa, sow and silva get back quick. We are still in the hunt for playoffs and need to fight tooth and nail for every point from now...
Great post Ozzy - agree totally.